Me, Myself, and Everybody Else

A Chance to Learn

Twilight deepens

Lamps flicker on

 To light the homes withing

Mothers read to their children

Tuck them in

Watch them with loving eyes

All is peaceful

 

In the morning

The sun shines

On a blackened wasteland

No longer a beautiful, little town

Now just another stop

On the path of destruction

 

There are many like this

Many places destroyed, abandoned

Covered in the sands of time

The dust of ages

Yet never forgotten

Forever standing a testimony

To what some call power

Ohters call horror

 

Then, there are those places

Still standing

Full of life

And hope

Showing to one

And to all

That we will survive

That although

We have tried very hard to

Ruin this home of ours

We will endure

We will see

The destruction we have caused

And will look at the blackened shells

Of the homes of many

Not as a sign

Of bitter hopelessness

But as a chance to learn